Dunlop Peak
Dunlop Peak | ||
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height | 1330 m | |
location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Framnes Mountains | |
Coordinates | 67 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Dunlop Peak is a 1,330 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It belongs to the Smith Peaks and rises in the David Range of the Framnes Mountains 1.5 km south of Mount Hordern .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after the Australian physicist Ross Dunlop, who carried out studies on cosmic rays at Mawson Station in 1959 .
Web links
- Dunlop Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dunlop Peak on geographic.org (English)